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Seattle Mayor's Office Arranging Talks With NBA, NHL On Arena; Denies Ducking Silver

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s office plans to "arrange a conference call with the NBA and NHL to talk about the ongoing arena process, but a spokesman says there is no truth his office has tried to avoid the NBA," according to Geoff Baker of the SEATTLE TIMES. An NBA source also said that the league "had no plans to meet with Seattle officials." Murray's Communications Dir Benton Strong "emphatically denied" a report yesterday that stated Murray "had been 'ducking' calls from NBA Commissioner Adam Silver over much of the past year." Strong: "There is absolutely no truth to that whatsoever. If anything, we are trying to get together on a call with both commissioners to keep the lines of communication open" (SEATTLE TIMES, 1/17). Baker wrote there is "anger and confusion" from some local sports fans, who feel that hedge fund manager Chris Hansen and his proposed Sodo District arena "should have already been greenlighted and can’t comprehend" the city going the KeyArena route. But the "reality is KeyArena was always the critical piece to this yearslong puzzle." It is a "profitable, city-owned facility that studies show will become a money-losing drain on Seattle Center if Hansen’s project gets built in Sodo and siphons away events." But it also "could cost city taxpayers tens of millions of dollars." The city’s arena process is "finally allowing competition from what advocates insist is a viable KeyArena option deliberately ignored until now" (SEATTLE TIMES, 1/16).

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